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Margaret Cho Official SiteThu, 01 Feb 2018 22:39:37 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4Arizona GOP using All American Girl Photohttp://margaretcho.com/2017/08/23/arizona-gop-using-all-american-girl-photo/
http://margaretcho.com/2017/08/23/arizona-gop-using-all-american-girl-photo/#respondWed, 23 Aug 2017 16:56:23 +0000http://margaretcho.com/?p=5748I find this similar to when I was a kid someone told me that Simon Lebon’s name was “Mike Hunt” and so I went around school saying “I love Mike Hunt” and even wrote it on my locker. I didn’t bother to research and paid the price of a dodgeball to the face. They got some bad information and ran with it. They deserve a Read More]]>http://margaretcho.com/2017/08/23/arizona-gop-using-all-american-girl-photo/feed/0Paper Magazinehttp://margaretcho.com/2017/07/14/paper-magazine/
http://margaretcho.com/2017/07/14/paper-magazine/#respondFri, 14 Jul 2017 13:18:48 +0000http://margaretcho.com/?p=5721This was a fun shoot! Thank you Albert Sanchez!

]]>http://margaretcho.com/2017/07/14/paper-magazine/feed/0Margaret Cho Opens Up About How Joan Rivers and the Go-Go’s Changed Her Lifehttp://margaretcho.com/2017/03/21/margaret-cho-opens-up-about-how-joan-rivers-and-the-go-gos-changed-her-life/
http://margaretcho.com/2017/03/21/margaret-cho-opens-up-about-how-joan-rivers-and-the-go-gos-changed-her-life/#respondTue, 21 Mar 2017 21:28:24 +0000http://margaretcho.com/?p=5672Lyndsey ParkerYahoo Music
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]]>http://margaretcho.com/2016/05/20/margaret-cho-on-late-night-with-seth-meyers/feed/0Village Voice: This is Stand-Uphttp://margaretcho.com/2016/03/14/village-voice-this-is-stand-up/
http://margaretcho.com/2016/03/14/village-voice-this-is-stand-up/#respondMon, 14 Mar 2016 18:46:56 +0000http://margaretcho.com/?p=5226“Those who do [comedy] know they have to do it,” Cho tells the Voice. “I think I was really born into it and knew that was my identity at a very young age.”

Cho addresses race in comedy, how she considers herself a kind of a laugh-inducing yoga instructor, and delving into dangerous territory: “I don’t want to invite suffering into my life in order to Read More]]>

I was raped by my uncle from the age of five to 12, and I told my family, and they believed me, but their solution was “don’t sit on his lap so much, then.”

He had already raped other girls and women in my family, so of course they believed me, but it was more important to them to keep Read More]]>

http://margaretcho.com/2015/11/23/margaret-cho-explains-why-she-wants-to-kill-her-rapist/feed/0NY TIMES: The Righteous Rage of Margaret Chohttp://margaretcho.com/2015/11/10/ny-times-the-righteous-rage-of-margaret-cho/
http://margaretcho.com/2015/11/10/ny-times-the-righteous-rage-of-margaret-cho/#respondTue, 10 Nov 2015 22:20:13 +0000http://margaretcho.com/?p=5155After three decades in the business of comedy, fans and critics alike know what makes Margaret Cho tick. As a pioneer of self-awareness and sex-positive storytelling, Cho was dealing out honest, NSFW routines long before Amy Schumer became a household name. It’s all good, though — the two friends admire each other.

On stage and off, 46-year-old Cho is a maverick activist. She pushes back against Read More]]>

It was the tweet heard round the sex-worker world. At 6:12 p.m. on Oct. 29, Margaret Cho, the 46-year-old comedian, disturbed the Twittersphere with an economical 109 characters: “Sex work is simply work. For me it was honest work. I was a sex worker when I was young. It was hard but well paid. There’s no shame in it.”